MOVINGcrossCountry
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- |mH|
moving from BOston to LA, whats the cheapest way to ship my shit>?! aint got much, like a 1bd, bed, desks, coulple boxes, futon....! uhauls like 2k, cant do it and my car wont haul no trailor without the engin blowin up!
Anybody?
- digitalspiri0
pack all your essentials in the car, donate/sell your current stuff, and hit up a value village.
refresh your personal environment as well as area.
you can make a great desk out of a couple old file cabinets and a door, etc...
- monNom0
get a shipping company that specializes in small loads.
they tend to be about half the price of Uhaul. but make sure you get them to come to your place and quote it, I made the mistake of just TELLING a moving company what i had, and they billed me double what they quoted...(after they'd moved my stuff across the country and had it on their loading dock... I was in no position to argue)
even still, it was half the price of Uhaul. (they quoted 1/4)
- |mH|0
monNon, how did u find these guys? yellow pages...?? under what?
- monNom0
under 'moving' I think, theyre was TONS of them.
- monNom0
maybe it was 'shipping'
- ovalle0
whats the deal with everyone coming to l.a. ive been here for 6 yrs. and im trying to get out of here.. for your question though, there is a place called Camel Movers, they might have a web site not sure.. they charged my friend about 1000 bucks to move her stuff from l.a. to boston
- |mH|0
i called and the uhaul trucks like 2600$!! Shipping companies or Moving companies be a better choice? its like half a studio apt i gotta ship, so far everyone i call arnt into it!!
- monkeyshine0
I'm about to make your day...
in a word...AMTRAK
I moved to Seattle from Boston and then back and shipped all my stuff on Amtrak..18 boxes = about $280.
- |mH|0
I heard about that! but i called AMTRACK andthey dont ship furniture or electonrics...ects! and thats pretty much what i need to move!! ....could i be wrong?
- monkeyshine0
Can you break any of the furniture down? Cause I did that with my futon frame...made a box for it. Shipped it. My futon I stuffed in the back of my car. Electronics i Just really really carefully padded and boxed and shipped it. Just don't say it. Anything else I got rid of.